Trek’s electronic bike bell lets you customize how urgent it sounds

The quiescent ding of galore motorcycle bells isn’t ever capable to alert pedestrians oregon vehicles of a cyclist’s presence. Trek’s caller BellBeats is simply a compact Bluetooth talker that tin beryllium mounted to a bike’s handlebars giving cyclists a enactment of 8 speedy entree alert tones that are either affable oregon urgent.

Like a accepted motorcycle bell, the alert tones connected the BellBeats tin beryllium triggered portion riding utilizing a thumb button. Cyclists tin prime 2 of 8 tones — including a ringing metallic bell, a subdued bid horn, oregon an old-timey ahooga horn — that are activated with either a agelong oregon abbreviated property of the button.

Trek claims the BellBeats’ alert tones are much noticeable than the sounds made by accepted motorcycle bells due to the fact that they encompass a wider frequence scope and person been “professionally sound-designed” to marque it easier for pedestrians to find what absorption the sounds are coming from to assistance debar collisions. The talker besides includes perpetually looping ambient tones for way riders wanting to marque hikers oregon wildlife alert of their beingness astatine each times.

With six hours of artillery beingness and audio “optimized by Harman,” the BellBeats doubles arsenic a portable Bluetooth talker allowing cyclists to perceive to music, audiobooks, podcasts, oregon adjacent turn-by-turn GPS directions without the request for headphones that tin diminish their quality to perceive what’s going connected astir them. Built-in measurement controls fto cyclists rapidly crook down what they’re listening to erstwhile riding done crowded areas.

A speedy connect strategy allows the BellBeats to beryllium easy removed from a bike’s handlebars and attached to a backpack strap oregon a belt, but it tin besides beryllium near connected a motorcycle astatine each times acknowledgment to an IP67 standing allowing it to past a dense downpour oregon adjacent a implicit dunking to depths of 40 inches.

Although the BellBeats is disposable present for $99.99 and is listed connected Trek’s website, it tin lone beryllium purchased from “local retailers” for the clip being. Purchasing it straight from Trek volition lone beryllium an enactment “in the coming months.”